Epitaph
IGCyr105600
Trismegistos ID: 738581
Source Description
Support
White marble low base with mouldings of eggs and darts above and below on three sides, all severely chipped off; broken off at left (0.83; 0.22;0.46).
Layout
Inscribed in one line on front face between the mouldings (0.79; 0.11;0.43).
Letters
0.035 (tau, epsilon) to 0.04 (iota, beta); calice-shaped upsilon, open omega.
Place of Origin
Cyrene pleiades; HGL : obviously from one Necropolis .
Date
End of fourth or beginning of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Probably found during excavations of the Department of Antiquities under Goodchild between 1954 and 1956 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : re-used in the retaining wall South of the East Church , just East of the staircase giving access nowadays to the Church level.
Later recorded Location
Copied by D. Morelli in 1960 at place of re-use.
Later recorded Location
Seen and photographed by D. Roques between 1971 and 1973 at the same place.
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2004 at the same place.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Morelli in SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography , 271 (no image).
Apparatus
French translation
Stratôi fille d'Eubatas.
English translation
Stratoi daughter of Eubatas.
Italian translation
Stratòi figlia di Eubatas.
Commentary
The base has no footprints on top and has mouldings only on three sides, so it should be a funerary base able to support a half-statue. As it has been found in the Eastern Church, it had been plausibly brought there, perhaps for re-use, from the one near Necropolis, either Eastern or Southern.
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